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#460224 10/25/16 11:40 PM
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What's the best fuel for a small smoke lamp?


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Mineral spirits, charcoal lighter fluid or kerosene always works for me. Leave the wick tall and you'll get plenty o' black smoke with either one.



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Joe,

I remember as a kid my parents bought me a chemistry set. With the way the wax candles it came with would blacken test tubes I imagine you could use one of them.

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Joe,

Use the same spirit that you use to make your Spirit Stain.


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Paraffin ,which I believe you call kerosene ,is what I have used all my working life .Occasionally mixed a little motor oil if it was not sooty enough .

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Home heating oil or diesel fuel burns with a sooty flame too. When I've wanted an accumulation of lampblack to dye epoxy, lighting an acetylene brazing torch inside a tin can without turning on the oxygen provided plenty of soot.


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I use kerosene, no problem getting the work black(and my hands).
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Back in my service rifle competition days, I used a miner's carbide lamp to blacken my sights, as did a number of my colleagues. Just unscrew the base, add a few pieces of carbide, spit in it and reassemble it. This should produce enough gas for ordinary blacking purposes. For more gas, just add more moisture. My lamp came with a cigarette lighter type device on the reflector to light it, so no need for matches.

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Carbide lamps work very well, also; but I have a hard time finding carbide now, the can I had lasted for years but had to be left behind in a "move". I had kerosene on hand, anyway, for emergency lamps.
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Plenty of carbide on line.

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